Movie Quotes - Page 6

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."